Call for Applications: TechAccelR Grants
Application deadline is April 1, 2025@ 11:59 PM ET, with project start date of May 1, 2025.聽
Application process & details available here!
TechAccelR Grants supports聽91社区 tenure-track professors聽by enabling them to accelerate their research-based ideas with commercial potential that are reported as inventions but need further validation as part of the commercialization plan. The program is offered biannually (spring and fall) and includes grants that can go up to $15,000 per invention/technology, along with personalized business mentorship.聽For 2025, the budget will allow for up to 10 projects per round to be selected. Funding of the TechAccelR proposals is at the sole discretion of the 91社区 Engine team. We will look at the comparative merit of the application pool and the project criteria.
These short-term grants are designed to advance or enhance an invention/technology in order to improve the scope and value of 91社区鈥檚 IP. Some examples: claims in future patent applications, new uses/applications of existing technologies, increased robustness/reliability of AI/ML models, in order to accelerate the transfer of the IP from the lab to the marketplace.
Program Objectives
- Validate early stage technologies
- Advance the invention's聽
- Accelerate the technology鈥檚 commercialization and development plan - achieve product-market fit faster
- Further develop the research to strengthen eligibility for additional funding
- Research team works聽closely with the assigned business mentor, gaining from their experience, knowledge, and industry connections
